Author Archives: Team Chekpeds
Posted inCHEKPEDS, DOT STUDY, Pedestrian safety

Pedestrian’s delight: 9th Avenue gets a protected crossing at 43rd Street

by Team Chekpeds
This week, DOT installed what hundreds of Manhattan Plaza senior citizens and families with young children have been asking for years: a traffic signal that protects pedestrian crossing 9th Avenue on the south leg from westbound cars turning south from… Read more “Pedestrian’s delight: 9th Avenue gets a protected crossing at 43rd Street”
Posted in9th Avenue Renaissance, Greening

Pedestrian Delight: Canoe is near completion with traffic light to safely cross Ramp C

by Team Chekpeds
A plaza the community dreamed up in 2007 as part of the 9th Avenue Renaissance report is becoming reality as the first meaningful public space in Hell’s Kitchen South, on 9th Avenue at 36th Street. The plaza which reclaimed one… Read more “Pedestrian Delight: Canoe is near completion with traffic light to safely cross Ramp C”